The Sun. — London, England, 1810-02-06 00:00:00

N AVAL NEWS: mous exclarnafion of battle; and . the motto of the 1 immortal NELsosi, " Death o r Victory, "- rang FALMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Arrived this day the Pro- ' through the ship, aillence, ROBARTS, from Wexford ; the ll:ince of . In this burnout, whatever event th e con fli ct h a d , 'Pales, MiTcHEL, from Li mer i c k ; the Eliza, MEN- . it would have b e en t remen d ous i n i tg d uration ; how zics, from Dundalk; th e F re d er ick , CHRisTENsoN, ever, the approachin g ships , were in a short time die. from Bourdeaux, with sines. covered not to be enemies. On the 18th or 18th or Also arrived the Countess of Chichester, ROGERS, 19th, Captain BRACE fell in with the Brisk sloop of front the Leeward Ishnds, after a passage of 24 ' war, Captain CoODE, and with this reinforcement, day, from St. Thomas : she confirms the account ! though still inferior in strength to the enemy, he ,biongiit by the Townshend of the two French fri- i went in pursuit of them, steering to the, N.W. the . .;are, being de,iroyed at Gua'!aloupe, in which Cap- course which they appeared to have been .keeping pin CA NI ERON, of his Nliiisry's ship Hazard, lost his : he was not however fortunate enough to discoVer life,' and ttitortunately by an English Midshipman, them a second time. If Capt. BRACE had had any who perceiving Capt. C. making towards the boat kind of auxiliary, he would have engaged the enemy. (and owing to the French colours being wrapped His anxiety has not been a little A their escape. round his body) mistook him for a-French Officer, ; His Majesty's sloop Gaimit, . Capt. StiVaulow, and shot him dyad. By the packet accounts are arrived yesterday at C o V e, w ith a fleet Of transports,. received that G uac i a l oupe was to b e attacked the Etcc. under convoy frdm Dartmouth. The Talbot 20th of January last by a force of 10,000 men. sloop of-war, Capt. the Hon'. A. joisits, reached the Two American sips are tins evening arrived off harbour the same day froM i i orismouth, with a feet th , J Port from Virginia with tobacco ; ',on board one ' of merchant vess e l s un d er h er p roteetiOn. IS Capt. FAR MER , o f t h e s h ip Q ueen, f rom Hayti .. bound to London ; and which ship was captured by a French privateer of ,18 guns, after an action of one hour, in which the Queen had one titan killed. . His Majesty ship Hafixter, with convoy for the' Downs, made signal to . getunder weigh this morn; jug - , but it falling calm they again came to. The 'Genera/ 111/ram/a, Captain FERlttEnn, froni Hayti, has arrived in the Downs, atter engaging with ,a French privateer, of 16 guns; and full of then, for two hours, which she beat off. EssEx EcacTloN.—The numbers polled yestef day*ere—, Mr. H oubl r)n • . 224 Mr. Burgoyne • - 33 PORTSMOUTH, FEB. s.:—Came iii laA evening, to the Niotherbank, the ship General Writes - ley, DA VID CHANVET, Commander, from Calcutta, bound to London, laden with cotton and rice ; she left Bengal the 1 ith Sept. last, arrivtid at the Cape the 1 5th Nov. and sailed therefrom the 21st. Total for nr. flotation . 027 otal for Mr. Burgoyite sic Majority for the former - We have great pleasure in being able for state that the dispatches received yesterday by the Cour: of bititiors from Lord CA.LUDOW, althe Cape of Good Hope, announce the cotnplete restoration of tran quility in India; add that it-is not necessary to send any additional military torte to Madras.. Accounts from the:tape of Good Hope mention that an earthquake has occurred there, which haS done considerable damage. A small island on the tOitse, it is said, hai been completely Submerged., . La Paz, whnte the lite loyal revolution took place, is nearly 5t50 milei from the coast in the interior of Pent; andis adjacent to the Like of Citation. In the neighbolirliond iS the lofty mountain Illirnani, one of the link's of a vast chain of -elevatiOns abounding in the precious metals. This day - th e LORD MAYOR ordered the price of Bread to be reduced 2d. per peck ; the quartern loaf will then he Is. 041 On Tuesday evening about Mx o'clock, a dreadful le.xdlosion of gun-powder trio:A place at Line belph, n the Putielies, its joiner's shop belonging to the proprielors of the li-ty Colliery, behind Messrs. Bourn, Baker and 139..un'S Manufat.lory. A man was pui , ringpoWder out of a pa. -, er into. a fia,k, and by some,means unknown, it caught fire, and communi..- cated to 'he piwder in ti,e boxes (about 2401b5.) when the whole blew up, and killed the man instantly ; and burot two other nien who were in Clt: s:;on., but they are 1141 recovering. Thallt buildhigs irround,wery 'very much damaged. Several of . the Morning Papers contain a para graph; stating that a Pondy, of 12 hands high, is matched by his owtter, , tor 400 guineas, to trot 15 miles within the hour. We 'have frequently ex pressed our abhorrence of the barbarity of these matches, but our concern and indignation are in creased upon this occasion, by the circumstance of the owner of this unfortunate animal being stated to, be a CLEftGYMAN ! Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship Gotheiwk, Came into harbour this day the kary, from Halifax, bound to London, laden with tim ber, having been taken by a French privateer, and retake n by his Majesty's ship Rapid, of 16 guns, W. MATHER, Commander : also, came into har bour his Majesty's ship Minotaur; of 74 guns, Cafa. BAR RETT. Arrived the Saniuel,DAvlsoN- i , froni Sunderland: Flis Majesty's ship Pilot takes convoy to the Downs. twoor. N ogi.l 'SIIEETINESS, FEB. 4.—Sailed lli§ l Majesty's brigs konkey and Constant. FEB. s.—Sailed his Mjesty's ship Africa ) f o r Plyn'l ou th. Arrored the ToWer thndei - , with volunteers and ihlPreased men for the fleet, OZA L; FEB. s.—Sailed the Fiseuezrd frigate oh a t ruize otf Put back the Trincuin sloop of war with hci: t 'QY of outward bound that sailedliom hence ',titer xlay, The :4(fred, Woidfonl, and Elplanstonc East in 4iarnen still keep out. COsic ) JAN. ilia late nitiee of the ktrginie friv,ate, in lat. 49. she ftil i with tame t're ch fligiles; one of which wall aticertainod to be of th e largest clan- of single decked ship% and kept c ompany with them an entire day, occasiatially lying t °, and offering the.si battle, which, netwithfland. tng their great superiority, they showed 2to,iiidica6 li°4 of attempting. They adopted the defens.tee 'Ode of the Virgin/4 and also at times ta, but in such a positiin, almost in cOntad with each °lliery that it was impraalcable to separate thou s° as to attack one with a n y p ros p e & o f a d vantage .. i IV lloever knows the charaeter of Capt. BRACE hand none ranks higher for skill and intrepidity in t he service) can well conceive that his situation was tq oo small degree mortifying. It was a struggle be.. tw ert discretion and duty, which forbid being, the assailant against such formidable odds, and the sug gsti, n of a gallant mind which rejected all per. considerations. If, where the line of con tit:et was so obvious, any auxiliary considerations w ere necessary, the bad state of the ship as to equip would have been a decisive obstacle to the tintest. She had suffered heavily in a gale of wind a Short time before—and not only exhausted her bw n: stores in refitting, but had been compelled to . re ceive al addiliOnal supply from Capt. UPTON, of th e Sytelle, u itit whom Capt. liaAca fell in at sea. jn this state the Virgihie would have.been totally at th e mercy of accident had she been hit by a fortu "te slidr o f t h e enemy . If Capt. Plaice however 1 t ''d permitt e d his fening to usurp the co n t rou l o f 'll9 judgment and prudence, there is nothing that a ~1 11' 4 ) of equal force with the -Pirgi • nie could have • 7"le that s h e wou ld not h ave e ff ecte d . Th e en 7 aiiastic gallantry of his officers and crew, and their ''lgula r l y high state of discipline, would'havi been e °lllo.tent to the performance of all th a t was proof cahk' ; and this disposition was susequently proved. "The Virginie lost sight of the French ships in the "g i 't ; but in the morning two sail were discovered , • - 4 ' ll (:ward, and apparently bearing down upon her. Cdpt. 131LscE had not before declined the battle, ' e Ship was instantly cleared for action. A short ;-• :11 to tlnp spirit of the crew, produced the unanio TP. E LYCEUM.—The 'revived play of,passlNGEß, ender tht new title of Rich e s ; er , he fife and Brotizer, was repeated last night at this place before a numerous audience ) and Was received throughout *kh warm applause. Indeed the passages which excited some sight disapprobation on Saturday were wholly omitted last , night;-- - -On reconsid er i ng t hi s ptay, and Comparing it with the original drama, we tied that S. %lanes has done more than we at first supsed; but .w it h alt our respect for the memory of the o ld bard, we are inclined to Omit that the al terations and'aciclitiotis tend very much to improve the general elk& of the piece. These alterations ap pear in the charaaers of the young Ladies, who are not marked by such strong traits of the maternal virago as distinguish them in the original play. The charatiers of the Lovers too are modernized, and that which in the original was flatted Plenty, is by no means so rough-hewn as at first. Altogether, . the public are really indebted to Sir J. B. BURGES, from whom they have received g reaten literary fa vours, for thus restoring th e produ aion t ' of a vigorous old Dramatist, as well as to the Manager of this Theatre for encoura g ing the atte m pt, as i t may lead to other revival s, tending to bring - back the public taste to that healthy tone which may conduce to the general improvement of the modern Drama. We give the Prologue, which does credit to the poetical talents of Sir J. B. BURGES; and also the Epilogue, whioh is a spirited and humorous pro duaion of Mr. ARNOLD, the Manager. Mr. KEMBLE iS so much recovered from his late alarming disorder,, that he will soon be able to re animate the tragic region. Another meeting of the Renters of Drury-lane I‘fleatris bas been recently held, when it was re solved that a •petition should be presented to the Throne; beseeching Hls MAJESTY to interpose his authority, in Support of the patent, to prevent the ereaion of a-new. Theatre, A FAMILY IN UPROAR. - -A few evenings since, a Publican, in .2dary.le-Dope,' arrived at IWarlho rOughestroet Police-oSeo in a coach, to bail a fe -mole- and whilst an center was taking the b a il, soother coach arrived with the wife ; while she was giving vent to. her rage in the office, on account of her husband's frailty, the potrboy arrived in a third coach, charged with robbing the till. *- A few evenings since a gentleman was hustled at Temple Saar, and robbed of a book containing 15001. A young married Lady is said to have Jkitely eloped with a Justice of Peace,. who has left an ainitabk: wife and several children. the list aistaken. !iy ques lye. such rs should which art it to they had ; for any Hou4e c: a mnt motion I)eakei) lot;an, -e Colll : Com- d, - .that , which i move, instead sit the after- 4" Mr.- ,eared, Chan- when Tan—. order. at au Lord 2,xpe- le at. -; ton II the ► any isters. 0 the PRIMA • ..ra THE NEW COMEDY OF RICHES; on, WIFE AND • BROTHER. • Spoken by Mr. Etas. °Mid the wide pains of Imperial Rome, The cracUe once of Genius, now the tomb, If chance a scuiptur'd fragment should disclose; Some love or Phiebus without arms Or'nose, With emulation rival Artists strive Its shape and jus o t proportions to revive, 'Till, when restor'd its symmetry and grace, With added beauties both of Torun and face, In the completed mass the 'Critic sees, The hand of Phidias or Piaxiteles. So 'mid our British stoles, negletted lie Dramas, which might the touch of arm: defy. But that the taint of% licentious age Forbids than to diseitace our Purer Stake. Oiti ancestors through fit - eking offs could 'Sit, Mistaking gross indeeency for wit, Arid even females, 'neath a vizor's shade, ' Finn/011y the shameless Stage survey'd. More pure the inatinets now, more chaste the treat At which the Muse invites you now to meet; Whethet• at tollY or at vice she fly, This iraiseli her's, she flies with decency. High 'lnongst the bards, once better known to fame, Still Stands ieeorded Massinger's proud name; Who close to Shakespeare's matchless genius sorted, Who, next to lonson, • front true learning's hoard With skilful balk! his rich materials drew, To manners faithful and to nature true; But who with grossness so debas'd his verse, What he dar'd write we dare not now rehearse. Still', since replete 12..; lines with vig'rous thought, Since glows the tire from inspiration caught, • Let us, on his behalf, your tavodr pray, While from oblivion's gulph we snatch this play. Cleaz'd from the dross which its pure ore clebas'd, The fault of fashion, or the lapse of taste, Its rank groivtli prun'd with no unsparing hand, Its morals mended, and its scenes lie plann'd It trusts to you its renovated cause, And waits your Verditt—:.censure or applause. EPILOGUE. Spoken-by Mrs. EDWIN. cfrny folly as a scolding wile, Sir 101-IN at List shad lead a (inlet 111 e. Ye henpeck'd husbands, all, l gieatiy fear, That Many of that gentle class are here-- Attend awhile. A wife refurited shall school ye, And sliew why wives rebel---how woolen rule ye. When first in awful blandishments array'd, You court with smiles and pray'rs unguarded maid ; How full of wit each word, of charms and feature, She's angel, goddess, then - celestial creature. While she, poor silly maid, rakes all fortooth ; What female heart can doubt such charming truth ? The wedding o'er, how soon these lii&;h notes tall, This angel proves niere woman after all ! • The great discovery made, how chang'd the tone, The husband cold, the wife indifferent grown ; •'Stead of my dear, my love, my treasured prize, " Dainnie, my dear," and " Zounds, my love," he cries. While she, soon glow. Replies, resents, and C11(.6 a cOwtiright Now comes her triumph, for you'll all allow, When women chuse to rule, they well kltow how ; For Where's the man, who dares, or old or young, To take the held against a woman's tongue ? Yonder'! see a Lady, by the bye, —She with sharp nose and little scolding eye; Arid—or ltis looks have very much belied her, Her Caro Spare there sits close besideher ; —That round fat Gentleman, who looks so blue, You needn't 1 , 41 ...-e_your face, I don't mean you. Now, as I take it, this harmonious pair Can prove what man and wile in quarrel are. • Married for like, In youth's impetuous hour, • They dream of endless love in Hymen's bower ; But long before the honeymoon was o'er, A quarrel rose, which lasted—evermore. " My love," said he, one evening, " I &Pal chuse, " That you should wear, my dearest, so much touge." " Net rouge," cried she, in agony ! " I vow, " My love, indeed, that's quite provoking now." Tears 'gen to tall, and with her rouge to mingle, " You ne'erfound fault with rouge when l was shlgle.." " Zounds, Ma'am, you prate !" " wou'd I had Longer tarried !" " S'death, Ma'am, you heverroug'dbefore we married." In short, ye men, before. ye wed, beware (it everlasting truth to vow and swear; But married, fan with care the nuptial flame, Nor think that bear and husband-are the same, Win us by love—if that won't do alone, Die like Sir tonN, and then the day's your own. Ladies, a word to you, and then I've done, - A word to tell you what you ought to shun; Shun contradiction—worst of all disasters; • You should be mistresses, but not be masters. Woman by love and gentleness bewitches, She never sure was meant to wear the breeches: • • Win lay affection, by persuasion Tie, Thus gain your end ; and so 1 shut up school. CIIORAL FUND.—The Annual Concert, f9r the benefit of this excellent Institution, took place last night at. the Haymarket Theatre, and we were glad to see it. so liberally patronised by the Public; as the house was crowded in all parts. The se- . lection and performance were admirable. - HARRI, SON, BARTLEMAN, MiSS HAWXINS, and. Mixt! PAtixa, essentially contributed to the generalenter, tainment. Miss PARKE, illi.partivulpr, with hor custonied good-riatorp, volunteered - an 441001 song for Mrs. Amu; who, from indisposiOors4N4ras unable to attend. The person wh o' made the. apb la . gy for the latter excited no sligh t degree-otmerrt-' mew, by informing thq,aedieuoe that she had turned to town on Saturday indispOsed,_ and hid ever since been #ed-riciden. MAILS. Leew4rd Islands, 2 Dublin , t Waterford. pus-3 Gottenburgh, t Waterford. - - 3 _ • PRICE OF,STOCKS • :iris QAT AT TWILVii• ,O r CLPCK• Consols •• . . .• . • -a 67 68 AALERICAN PAPERS. MESSAGE FROM TSB PRRSIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING EXTRACTS FROM THE CORRIFoN . DRNCE , OF MR. PINKNEY. To the Hooke or Representatives otthe United States, Agreeably, to the request expressed in the re.inki tion of the I 3th lust. I fay heforo the House extract from the Corre , ;pontience of the Minister Pleni,.o - of the United States at London. Dec. 16, 1869. JAMES MAUI BRIEF ACCOUNT Of an unofficial Conversation between Mr, CA NNINr. FINKNEY, on the ISM of January, 11809, contin.44 2.2i1 of the same month. [Transmitted by Mr. I'IN c to the secretary of State.] I dined at Mr. Canning's with the Cnrpt D plomnlique on the ititth January. Before ditiner,h came up to me, and entering into conversation, ad verted to a report which he said had reached him, that the American . Ministers (here ani in Feitice ) were about to be recalled. I replied, that I wa , z,not aware that such a step had been resolved upon. ‘( He then took me aside, and observed, that ac cording to his view of the late proceedings of Con- " gress, the resolutions of the House of flepresewx fives, in commlitee of the whole, appeared to Lis • calculated, if passed into a law, to remove the - im pediincnts to arrangement with the United States, on the subjects of the Orders in Council. and the Chesapeake, by taking away Ohl disci tween Great Britain :and France in the exolw.;ion of vessels of war from the American ports. - He ac.l , ktd that it ova, another favonrdble ciectimslance that the non-importation systent which sett;noct to ly ;! contemplation, was to be applied erpt,lly to both . parties, in,tead of at - re:Ail - 1g as heretof,,re Great . tam alone. " I proposed to Mr. Ca fining, that I shoill-1 cad on hirer in the cnur , ,e of a day , or two, for the pur pose of a fre:!. cOmmonication, upon wilat Ins It td suLrgested. To this he, readily assented ; it - wa s set tied that -I'shonld see him on the jog (the 22d) at twelve o'clock, at his own house. In the interview of the E 2 2d, Mr. Cannin ; .t's im pressions appeared to respects ihe same with those w hi c h h e had meioloned,ati the I sth ; and fi said every thing which I thought .consistent candour and dierction, to confirm him in his,clisoo stion to seek the re-estiblishment of goo l u•id, stinding with us', and especially to see in the ex- . peeled of Congress, if it stould pass, an opening for reconciliation. " It was of some importance to turn their at tention here, - without loss of time, to the manner of any proceeding that might be in their contempla tion. It seemed that e the,resolutioris of the House of Representatives, if ena6ted into a law, might renThr it proper, if not indispensable; that the affair of the akesapeake should be settled at the sank time with the business of the Orders and Einbirgo, and this I understood to be Mr, Canning's opinion and wish.' It followed that the whole matter ought ' to be settled at Washington),and, as thiS was moreover, desirable on various other grounds, I suggested that it Would be well, in case a speedy mission did not meet their approbatiion, - that the necessary powers should be sent to Mr. Erskine. In the course of the conversation, Mr. Canning proposed several questions relative to our late pro posal ; the principal were the two following:— I. In case they should wish ether through tne or tbrcugh Mr. Erskine to meet us upon the Wok of our late overture, in what way was the effected. operation of our embargo as to France, &c. after it should be taken off as to Great Britain, to be se cured. It was evident, he said, that we should do no more thae refuse clearances for the ports of France, arc. or prohibit, under penalties, voyages to such ports, the effect which my letter of the 23d of August, and my published instructions, pro posed to have in view, would not be produced; for that vessels although cleared for British ports, might, when once out, go to France instead of coming here ; that this would in fad be so, (whatever the penalties which the American laws might.denounce against offenders) could not, he imagined, be doubt ed ; and he therefore presumed that the Govern. rnent of the United States would not, after it had itself declared a commerce with France, Ste. illegal, end its citiiers who should engage in it, delinquents, and after having given to Great Britain by compatt an interest in the stria, observation of prohibition, - complain if she naval force of this country should assist in preventing such a commerce. ' ed, He asked whether there would be any ob jection to making the repeal of the British orders and the. American embargo cotemporaneous ? He seem; ed to consider this as indispensable. Nothing could . be less admissible, he said, than that Great Bri• taiu, after rescinding her orders, should for any time, however short, be .left subject to the em bargo in common with France, whose decrees were subsisting, with a view to an experimetit upon France, or with any other view: The United States could not, upon their own prin ciples, apply the embargo to this country one mo ment after its orders were revoked, or decline after the event to apply it exclusively to France, and the" Powers contented with her system. I took occasion towards the close of our coc versation to mention the recent appointment of Adni. Berkeley to the Lisbon station. Mr. Canning, said that whatever might! be their inclination' to con • suit the feelings of the American , Covernment 'en that subject,. it was inapossible for 'the Admiralty to trOott the. claim of_ that officer to be employed (,!.• i,r objection existing against him), atter 'apse of time since hi s return f rom Halifax, hoot blititing him to a Court-martial. The usage --the tatty *Win this respect different from that lief the army.' fttit I understood Mr. Canning to .* that he might OM be brought 'to a Court tututial'itlthUegh I did. not under s t an d hi m to say EOW be "Ae ease.. He said that Ad m i ra l Berkeley, in" what be had done, had [acted wholly Iwithdut *authiett. I did not propose to enter into any diSttittion upon the subject, and therefore contented myself' with speaking of the appointment as unfortunate. • ‘‘ In both of these conversittlonsMr. Canning's latiguage anct, manners were iu the highest degree conciliatory." not rela- the tAion Mr. the hat, not fore (ely tree c t !en,. en t th- in-' its ng , I 1